Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 5, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 2 Winnipeg pm Latuf september 1981 Light fingers do walking across these yellow pages by Sheila bean Manitoba businesses annually Shell out thousands of dollars of Advertis ments no one is Likely to says the sales manager of Manitoba Telephone systems directory Joe Mack said companies based in Toronto and the Are sending local businesses solicitation forms for list ing in Telephone and telex directories that have Only if circular the solicitation he Bor Der on the fraudulent by giving the impression that a renewal of legit mate yellow Page or telex directory and is being one of the classified directory publishers has been around for said Classi fied directory gets a copy of the yellow pages for Winnipeg and types out each name and address of business on a the form offers businesses a listing in a National 1982 business directory for the form also has a yellow pages logo in the upper left Cor similar to that used by Telephone they Send them to everybody in the yellow Mack they even Send one to us because were in the some Mack remit the thinking the form was sent by two Toronto based operations that began soliciting Here this How Are going one step he cheques sent intr Canada telecommunications snips an advertisement out of the Winnipeg yellow attaches it to a solicitation and sends it to the regular said Mack the subscriber opens the letter and that my i guess i should get it for another and he gives it to his Secretary with instructions to Send a Cheque with what does the Secretary care if its a Toronto address me said big companies get stung More often than Small ones because they dont write their own another Toronto direct Ory publishers of photo co pie the ads on yellow cuts them out and sends them with the solicit Mack said he has heard that some of the directories Are eventually but even when printed they Are being sent to the subscribers and no one what Good does it do a plumber in Manitoba to have his and in the directory of a retailer in Sas who was also taken in said its gets letters and phone Calls about the directory solicitations every Mack he said customers Are asked to Send the forms and envelopes to its to help the company prepare for any Legal action it decides to Bell Telephone in Ontario has Al ready launched Legal action to Force the directory companies to change their solicitation the problem exists All Over Mack and possible financial gains from such operations is stagger a private directory company would collect if Only five per cent of the subscribers to the Winnipeg yellow pages returned the he estimate Mack said Telephone including Are spending thousands of dollars in advertising to Alert customers to the potential Manitoban can look for la belled dont get inserted in months he the notices will remind customers the Cost of their directory listings is included in monthly Billings and Are not sent separately by a similar Type of solicitation is being sent to telex by a company called telex and two directory a company based in Beverly the California company has nothing to do with a nip which publishes the Standard telex and two Alex regional sales Man Ager for the Selling agent foe the a nip said he has received More than 100 Telephone plaints or questions regarding extra Ive been flooded with people Call us and whats this All about but not All of them which is the sad it would be impossible for us to reach All of them and warn invoice he said the Californi abased opera Tion sends telex directory customers a 1982 order form and listing Verinica it contains the subscribers business telex and an Werback it also includes a space in which the subscriber can Correct any of the above information before the Date is under lined with coloured the form says if a revision or cancellation is not received by that then the listing will be printed As after the correction each subscriber is to receive an invoice for for the 1982 and said every form contains a mistake in one part of the listing which encourages the subscriber to return the form with a a followup invoice is sent Only to those subscribers who return the corrected Baumann said this directory plays on the expectation of a business Man answering mail without examining it Joe Macks desk covered with legitimate looking ramp asked Nib accepts new Northern native organization by Bob Lowery Winnipeg free press Thompson the newly formed Manitoba Keewatin now and Oki Makan a the political Arm for the 23 Northern Manitoba Indian has been unanimously accepted into the National Indian chief Joe Guy Wood of Theresa Point Indian who attended the Nib National Assembly along with More than 500 Canadian said even representatives of the four nations confederacy supported the Northern chiefs application for in the 23 chiefs withdrew from the confederacy because they claimed the needs of their people were being they also claimed that the Southern chiefs representing a minority of the treaty indians in Manitoba had More voting but when the vote was taken at the National the confederacy supported the Northern Wood because they understand what we Are trying to he said this action by the Nib ended the Indian politics stage of forming the new now we have to make official contacts with the Federal and provincial this process began in Thompson this week when Wood and chief Robert Wavey of the Fox Lake Indian met with Brian Federal direct to general of Indian affairs for Mani we presented him with our resolutions founding the new organization and asked him to make it Clear to other government agencies that we Are now the official representatives of the next the kanak which includes chief Charlie of the Pas Indian band and chief Maggie of the Norway House Indian Are to meet with members of the provincial conferences Are also being arranged with Federal solicitor general Robert Kaplan and employment Wood said the executive will attempt to get Federal and provincial funding to support the but the thing we Are most anxious to get at is the welfare syndrome which accepts 80to90percent unemployment As the chief we want to see what can be done to shift some of the welfare dollars into economic he we Are All for supporting people who Are unable or too old to but we want to have a Job Opportunity for everyone we need some Damn Good brain storming sessions Between our people and government if we Are going to do things on this Wood land claims Are another urgent mat Ter the new organization will Deal with in the immediate he Wood said a joint land claims Independent of All native should be set up to service the whole the establishment of such an he and the possibility of setting up a native Board of education Are areas in which the Northern and Southern chiefs could begin to work by Greg bail tier the chief of the Norway Indian band says she will ask Winnipeg ramp to investigate the handling of i recent missing persons which she Cal try s police chief Margaret Balfour said Day she is unhappy with Norway House ramps investigation into the Yearance of Jeffrey whose body was found wednesday afternoon in a tributary of the Nelson Balfour said Halcrow was reported missing to the ramp by his Mother on the night of she said the ramp refused to take part in a land and water band she organized a dragging operation on their own and eventually discovered Hal crows is Balfour said she fears the apparent Lack of police interest in the Case indicates there Are two standards of Law enforcement in her it looks like there is one Standard for the native people Here and one for the Balfour said ramp at the Norway House detachment refused to even Dis cuss the search one officer told me i was wasting his Al Barager said yesterday his men began investigating As soon As a missing persons report was made on he said he feels complaints about the handling of the Case Are Barager said Standard procedure was followed and the ramp making Calls to neighbouring communities from Thompson to grand rapids to Winnipeg following up a Rumor that the youth had left Norway House with a visiting baseball he said four persons reported seeing Halcrow after he was reported but none had seen him near the All the information we turned up led us to believe he was still Possi Bly with someone in the outlying there was no indication he had been near the Barager said this is Why the ramp refused to conduct a dragging opera Tion on the As no one could offer a suggestion As to what part of the numerous Waterways to he Barager said an autopsy was con ducted on the body in Winnipeg yester Day and there was no indication of anything other than an accidental weather City Calendar High Low cold front worm Winnipeg area forecast mostly Cloudy today with Chance of a Shower or showers beginning late this afternoon and ending by morn highs today near lows tonight near sunny sunday except for a few Clouds in the highs sunday near extended weather Outlook Southern Manitoba variable cloudiness possible showers sunny temperatures near nor Mal readings of 21 and Northern Manitoba variable cloudiness throughout with temperatures near Normal readings of 16 and Northwestern Ontario possible showers sunday and Mon sunny temperatures near Normal readings of 18 and temperatures Canada and the world a Holiday Flea Market will be held from 11 to 5 monday at the downtown Bay a voluntary Silver collection will go to the muscular dystrophy Assoc a Bud Jobin and Bob Anderson la Spring will present special awards to Manitoba business firms which have consistently employed physically disabled clients of the society for crippled children and adults of the event will be held from to wednesday at the society 825 Sherbrook Evelyn will speak on the conscious Ness of at a meeting of the Consumers health organization of Manitoba at 8 tuesday in the museum of Man and nature 190 Rupert ave tourist Alert Margaret and Jill Turner of driving from Banff to in a Brown citation with Ontario licence Are asked to Contact John Bain of Sudbury concerning an urgent provincial Toronto up the winning ticket in yester Days provincial lottery is there Are also subsidiary deaths classified death National 19 12 14 18 6 19 10 19 9 17 4 16 4 19 5 16 i 17 4 Thunder 23 7 21 19 22 17 25 16 20 12 International 19 16 21 12 24 w 21 16 21 9 32 22 20 7 16 10 j4 16 21 12 Madrid 32 Moscow is Paris 21 borne 28 Stockholm 16 Tel Aviv 30 resort spots los Cloudy 23 Las Clear 38 Cloudy 41 fair 30 fair 32 fair 32 Cloudy 28 Cloudy 28 Cloudy 32 Winnipeg comparisons mean 3 last year Normal highest on record in 1978 lowest on record in 1896 ii 7 13 17 7 22 29 33 26 24 26 24 24 24 total for april 1 to 3 Milli Normal Melvin husband of Alma John of bran formerly of wid Ower of Margaret Mary widow of Charles Eloise wife of Robert Bill of 576 Balmoral husband of nettle of clo Lorna wife of Ron George of North husband of Jean Stanley of 381 Westwood suite formerly of husband of june of 375 Assiniboine Dorothy of wife of Gil be Thomas of 233 Booth suite husband of Annie Ivy widow of Robert wife of lome Charlotte wife of or Elsa of 74 Villeneuve wife of Thomas George of 609 Lipton widow of Frederick wife of Bill Wesley of formerly of husband of Eloise childrens Hospital of Winnipeg research foundation friends this is our report to you thanks for your help in making the past year so successful up fora copy of our annual Complete statements and a review of qlll980 paediatric research or for further Contact childrens Hospital of Winnipeg research foundation b William Winnipeg r3e oz2 t ;